OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
HISTORY OF THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-
SECOND FIELD ARTILLERY AND SKETCH
OF ITS COLONEL
History of the 322nd Field
Artillery. Yale Uni-
versity Press, New Haven.
The Society is under obligations to
Colonel A. B.
Warfield, who commanded the 322nd Field
Artillery of
the National Army in the World War made
up almost
entirely of Ohio troops. The
frontispiece of this in-
teresting and valuable volume is very
appropriately a
portrait of second Lieutenant John
Morrison who en-
tered the service from Cincinnati,
Ohio, and was killed
in action October 15, 1918. On the
recommendation of
Colonel Warfield, Lieutenant Morrison
was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross
"For Extraordinary
Heroism in Action."
The foreword of this history of 511
pages explains
how the material for it was collected:
"From the first day of his
association with the regiment,
which is the same as saying from the day
the regiment was or-
ganized, Colonel Warfield had in mind
the future preparation
and publication of its history. To this
end he directed the regi-
mental adjutant, first Captain J. A.
Garfield and later Captain
G. S. Webber, to keep daily notes and
records of the happenings
in Section Q. This was faithfully done,
not only in Camp
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Sherman, but throughout the whole
existence of the regiment.
These notes were typewritten and kept
constantly up to date,
in a loose-leaf cover, and from time to
time were supplemented
by pictures as these became available."
The preparation of this history began
in Germany.
It was decided that it should be
divided into the history
of the different batteries of the
regiment. The volume
contains the record of each of these
and of the head-
quarters company. It is preceded by a
"day-by-day
chronicle of the regiment." The
volume is generously
illustrated with interesting views. A
number of maps
show clearly the movements of the
regiment in its over-
seas service. It is published by the
Yale University
Press.
In answer to a request for information
Colonel War-
field writes:
"The proudest and most remembered
experience of my
military career will be that when I
commanded the regiment of
Ohio troops during the late war. They
proved themselves in
every particular to be officers and men
of the highest character,
serving the government honestly and
faithfully and with credit
to themselves and the State of Ohio.
"I sometimes feel that
unfortunately for me I was not born
in Ohio. I was born July 24, 1878 in
Prattsburg, Steuben
County, New York."
Colonel Warfield attended school in his
native vil-
lage, was graduated from the High
School of Boon-
ville, New York, and later attended
Hamilton College at
Clinton in that state. He enlisted in
the 202nd N. Y.
Volunteer Infantry August 15, 1908, and
served with
this regiment in Cuba as a
non-commissioned officer and
later in the Philippines as a
Lieutenant in the 42nd U.
S. Volunteers. He was appointed second
Lieutenant in
the Artillery Corps July 1, 1901;
promoted to first Lieu-
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tenant August 11, 1903; commissioned
Captain January
25, 1907; transferred to Field
Artillery June 6, 1907;
detailed Quartermaster May 23, 1911;
commissioned
Captain Quartermaster Corps November
28, 1915; pro-
moted to Major, Field Artillery May 15,
1917; Colonel,
Field Artillery, National Army, 322nd
Regiment Au-
gust 15, 1917; discharged from National
Army August
31, 1920; promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel, transferred
to Quartermaster Corps as of July 1,
1920 and was later
on duty in the office of the
Quartermaster General in
Washington, D. C., as Chief of the
Salvage Division.
Into Mexico with General Scott, by Edwin L. Sabin.
J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.
$1.75.
This is a romantic story by the author
of "Lost with
Lieutenant Pike," "Building
the Pacific Railway," and
"General Crook and the Fighting
Apaches." It contains
a foreword of five pages of authentic
history, numerous
illustrations and maps and presents a
very creditable ap-
pearance. Prominence in the narrative
is given to Gen-
eral Scott, Robert E. Lee, George B.
McClellan and U.
S. Grant, men whose names are now for
all time fixed
in the annals of our country.
The romancers of history who write
especially for
the young naturally mingle much fiction
with historic
fact and often lead to wrong
impressions, that fortu-
nately sometimes are corrected by
reading the real his-
tory of the time or event described.
The writer of this
brief review acknowledges his
obligation to Colonel E. Z.
C. Judson, who wrote wildly adventurous
stories of the
West under the non de plume of Ned
Buntline. This
stimulated a lasting interest in the
period and the men
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who figured in the stories and
afterward led to an ap-
preciative study of life on the plains
with scarcely any
depreciation in his estimate of the
spectacular character
of Buffalo Bill.
A famous Iowa writer has declared that
"nothing
lies like history" and expresses
the opinion that we must
go to the imagination for realities.
This is a part of his
apology for writing a romance of the
famous "Johnny
Appleseed." While we are not
prepared at all to accept
this dictum it must be admitted that
such stories as "Into
Mexico with General Scott" appeal
with peculiar power
to the young and are stepping stones to
a genuine in-
terest in our history. As such they are
to be recom-
mended.
SENATOR WILLIS ADDS TO SOCIETY LIBRARY
The large collection of material
relating to the World
War now in the library of the Ohio
State Archaeological
and Historical Society has been
substantially increased
by the gift of many volumes from the
United States
government through Senator Frank B.
Willis. In addi-
tion to these publications the Senator
personally secured
for the Society printed and typewritten
copies of all
official invitations, letters and
documents relating to the
"ceremonies attending the burial
of an unknown and un-
identified American soldier who lost
his life in the World
War." These papers will make a
most interesting
volume which it will soon be impossible
to duplicate.
They will be added to the collection of
bound clippings
from various newspapers of Ohio
relating to the ob-
servance of the anniversary of
Armistice Day in 1921.
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Following are the most important bound
documents
forwarded to the Society by Senator
Willis:
America's Munitions. Report. 1917-1918.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy.
1916-1920. 5 Vols.
Brewing and Liquor interests and German
and Bolshevik
Propaganda. 3 Vols.
Navy Department. Office of Naval Records
and Library
Historical Section.
No. I. German Submarine activities.
No. 2. The Northern Barrage and other
mining
activities.
No. 3. Digest Catalog of Laws and joint
resolutions.
No. 4. The Northern Barrage (taking up
the mines).
Final report of General John J.
Pershing.
Treaty of Peace with Germany.
Address of the President of the United
States relative to the
Treaty of Peace with Germany.
Organization of the services of supply.
American Expedi-
tionary Forces.
War Department. Annual Reports. 1916-1919. (II Vols.)
Abridgment. Messages and Documents.
1917-1918. (2
Vols.)
Grateful acknowledgment is made to
Senator Willis
for this manifestation of interest in
the Society.
OHIO HISTORY SEARCH TOPICS
Professor C. L. Martzolff, of Ohio
University, has
recently published a very valuable list
of questions under
the title of Ohio History Search
Topics. These number
two hundred and eighty-one. The list is
followed by a
brief bibliography of
"Ohioana," including books relat-
ing to Ohio history which are
accessible in the well
equipped libraries of the state. In the
preface, Professor
Martzolff says:
"The interest in the study of our
state history is steadily
increasing. The greatest handicap lies
in the vast amount of
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unorganized material. In the absence of
a well-arranged volume
suited to our pupils, the author
believes no better way can be
found than by the search question
method. The caution is, how-
ever, thrown out that the mere literal
answer to a question can
not be regarded as the end-all of the
study, but the question
should be taken as the basis of a discussion whenever
possible."
The price of this publication is fifty
cents and copies
may be had directly from the author.
A HISTORY OF MINNESOTA
A History of Minnesota in four
volumes, Volume I,
by William Watts Folwell. Minnesota
Historical So-
ciety, St. Paul, 1921.
The first volume of this history has
just been re-
ceived. The binding, typography,
illustrations and gen-
eral appearance of this initial volume
create a most
favorable impression which is more than
sustained by
a perusal of the attractive pages of
the work. The
material is the result of painstaking
research; the sus-
taining sources of the text are made
readily accessible
to the reader by extended marginal
notes.
This history seems to have been written
under almost
ideal conditions. The Historical
Society of Minnesota
for years has been doing excellent work
and accumu-
lating the source materials for a
satisfactory history of
that state. Files of practically every newspaper pub-
lished in that state are on the shelves
of the library of
that Society. No explanation is needed
to show what
a splendid equipment these files
constitute as sources
of the state's history.
The Historical Society of Minnesota has
in its manu-
script department very large and
satisfactory collections
of the letters and papers of the
founders and builders of
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the state. These are collected in its
splendid new library
building which was erected at an
expenditure of
$500,000. A cut of this beautiful and
substantial struc-
ture was presented in our QUARTERLY for
October, 1920.
Minnesota is fortunate in her
historian, William
Watts Folwell, who since his graduation
from Hobart
College, New York, in 1857, has been
almost continu-
ously employed in educational work.
After his service
in the Civil War he was a resident of
Ohio and for
one year professor of mathematics in
Kenyon College.
From 1869 to 1884 he was president of
the University
of Minnesota and a professor in that
institution until
1907.
Since that date he has been very actively en-
gaged in various enterprises, chiefly
educational, in his
adopted state while still holding the
position of professor
emeritus in the state university. He has been ac-
quainted with practically all of the
men who were promi-
nent in the founding and building of
Minnesota. His
personal recollections cover a very
large portion of the
state's history in which he has been
through all his later
years very deeply interested. He is author of the
volume on the history of that state in
the Commonwealth
Series. He has a pleasing literary style that adds
charm to the text of his history and
makes the story
of Minnesota, as he unfolds it, one of
unusual interest.
Minnesota has an interesting history.
This is done
ample justice in the first volume of
Dr. Folwell's work
and we may rest assured that the
succeeding volumes
will maintain the same high
standard. The index to
Volume 1 is very satisfactory as is
also the table of
contents. For these, readers generally and librarians
especially will be grateful.